Unorthodox computing architectures

The progress of hardware integration technology allows the cost-efficient implementation of innovative computing architectures which might constitute alternatives or add-ups to the current von Neumann computer architecture. Within this area, current research activities focus on issues like e.g. massively parallel processor architectures, data flow architectures, neural net architectures,biologically-inspired architectures, orreconfigurable architectures. This Special Session comprising five papers presents some recent progress in that area.